How I Gained 2200 Elo in Just 2 Years 

Fantastic video! Bravo!!! ‼

I went from 800 elo to 1000 in 1 month because of this video, thank you man

Still plays the London, unacceptable. Amazing video to be honest, motivated me to turn from 2000 to 2200.

14:23: Tal was awarded the GM title for winning the 1956 Soviet Championship

Bro first off amazing video, the new lighting is so much better and you can clearly see the hours of effort that went into this edit, you deserve this!

24:34 I was really scared there that you wouldn't mention this guy, glad you did hahahaha

Such an insightful video! Great job🙌

despite your opening bit sounding (and looking) like your generic "don't call this number at 3am (gone wrong)", complete with intense eye contact, I'm glad I made it through the whole thing. great video.

Im 1800 Rapid and I’m vibing here for a bit but damn 2200 in 2 years is wild. Hopefully 2000 is in reach over the next couple months but idk

First he played re8 capturing the king and that’s how he won in those 2 years💀

Love it mate, congratulations

Hey this video was really instructive and super helpful, thank you so much for posting!

Amazing video!

nice video so far, when you mentioned tilt, I thought of my own games, and for some reason I tilt more on rapid than on blitz, sometimes I'll go to 2150 rapid, just to fall back to 2080 in one day, while I stay fairly consistent on 2050-2080 on blitz (doesn't matter much how many games I play)

Congrats my friend

Because of the huge number of games I’ve played i know how to play the opening pretty well but I’ve never actually spent the time to learn an opening yet and I’m 2200 😭. Solid advice tho, nice.

kinda weird you didn't mention Hanging pawns at all - his videos are incredible for improving, more specifically, his Middlegame playlist is one of the best free resources for understanding the middlegame on the internet

thats a masterclass thanks

crazy progress tbf 👍

Very informative vid..❤

Congratulations on your achievement! Gaining 2200 Elo in just 2 years is no small feat. It's inspiring to see your dedication and progress. Keep up the great work and continue sharing your strategies and insights with the community. 💪🏼🔥 #ChessGoals

I’ve seen so many of these videos and I never get any better.

great video!

great stuff

Underrated video

As someone who followed a similar path as you (peaked at 2200ish rapid like a month ago, currently 2000 blitz and started playing in around late 2021) I think your point on paying for courses may be wrong; for me, the chessable courses, especially opening ones, were actually very useful because of the detailed text explanations. Definitely no need to purchase video though, course only is fine and typically costs arouns 30-40$

This is a very useful video , i will start today and at the end of the month i will do a video proving your statement powerful im currently 1600, and i believe at the end of the month ill be 1900+

Right now i am stuck at 2150 , not reaching 2200, 2 years ago i was stuck around 1500 , then in last 9 months i gained rating rapidly and reached 2100+ , main reason i started watching youtube videos of daniel naroditsky speedrun it gives lot of insights how grandmaster thinks . But now i am stuck at 2150 last 1 month .

Not you calling me out with Ruy Lopez opening, feel so seen haha. But I knew this opening, as much as I like it, wasn't working for me at all just yet, clearly missing some understanding and skill. Inspiring video though! I have started kind of learning last month, learning how the pieces move and all that jazz - complete newbie, so this was useful. Somehow need to settle on an opening for white and overcome my fear playing with real people, can't be playing bots forever haha

Very solid advice

finally something more detailed !!

Hey man it would be really cool if you can respond. I hit my peak of rapid 2001 yesterday but my blitz and bullet has been disappointing to say the least (1250). I play rhe catalan and kid so since blitz and bullet are more tactically focused i cant keep up. But if i change my opening, the muscle memory i had will be gone. Do you have a suggestion on how i can keep my opening while also adapting the line and approach to support blitz, thanks.

thank you man

Great video 👍👍

Great video, I have been playing chess for around 12 months and I am currently in a pretty strange position considering my rating. Reached 1500 back in January after a very quick climb of gaining 120 elo in 10 days, and I stayed in that rating area for a decent time.Then a completely insane tilt followed, dropped down to almost below 1300 in just a single week. Recently I hit 1400 again and I am climbing back up to 1500 in a more stable and controlled manner, albeit much slower this time. Any idea why those jumps and falls in elo happen? What should i be on the lookout for to prevent it from happening again?

as someone who's 800 blitz, i play a strange queen's pawn sideline ,of d4 d5 e3 Nf6 c4 and if pawn takes c4, i capture with bishop, if any other move i capure the pawn of d5 and just develop my pieces and gives me a high win rate. i went from like 600 to 800 with this in not even a week. occasionally i push C5 or develop my second knight but that's the main idea. to just get bishop and queen out quick while having pawns supporting the center.

This is a great video thanks very much. I'm currently 1350 elo, if I could be 2200 in 2 years I would be very happy

amazing video (btw a fork with Qf4 was missed at 7:02 )

Pure gold. 👍

Good shit

The Chess Brah

thanks huge journey ahead.

Great video, straight to the point and concise! I agree with pretty much all of what you said, except for the very first part (as a beginner, learn a couple of simple openings). In my opinion, this is great for people of intermediate level, but as a complete beginner, sticking to a few openings you know well can 'narrow' your understanding of the game, which likely will cause you to progress less quickly (just my opinion). I picked up chess at the beginning of this year (I used to play chess when I was a kid with my father though, so I was not completely new to it) and climbed to 2000 elo in a matter of a few months, without playing any specific openings for a long time, but doing pretty much everything else you highlighted (play rapid, which gives yourself time to think about your moves / review your games / don't play too much games a day / solve your daily puzzles / watch high level players and listen to the commentary / ...), except for the opening part. I just now started to pick some openings I like to study their lines more deeply, but for me personally, I think it helped me a lot not to have any standard opening prepared as a beginner. This forced me to really think about my moves and my opponents moves, every moment of every game. So my openings have varied a lot, based on what my opponent was playing and what my own plan was that game. And yes, as a beginner, this means that you will fall into a lot of 'noob traps' at first, but if you review your games, you will learn from those experiences and your understanding of the game will grow far more quickly than if you just spam the 'safe' moves of your favorite opening pretty much every game, at least that's what I think. Just my opinion though, you obviously made it to 2200 only playing the London System just fine, so yeah, it clearly works! But I personally think that it's better for complete beginners to not focus too much on a few openings, but more on basic concepts, tactics and opening principles that will help them improve their general understanding of the game. Have a good day!

A great video. At 1300 will try to reach 2000 this year

congratulations! I make very slow progress. First i established 1600 than 1700 and now 1800 but i played for years. I think one thing that's bad for my rating is switching openings all the time

Kramnik: Very Interesting

I love the video only con I have to say that insights are premium tho

Interesting I know vast improvements are possible at the lower levels, at the higher end of chess 2000 2600 rating, 100 elo is one of the best progressions that few players can acheive each year.

Do you play any OTB Chess? Do you have a Fide rating for Classical as well? Would be interesting as 2200 is Candidate Master level!

Danya is the goat of chess commentary

I have played chess for a while when I was younger, but I stopped for a few years and just picked it back up a month ago. I'm currently rated 1290 (peaked at 1333, but tilted back to 1260 and am playing less now). I can usually dedicate an hour per day on chess, what do you think I should focus on to improve and what rating level would be realistic for me to reach in the next couple of months?

From this video i may or may not have learnt about chess, but i sure learnt that your favourite colour is blue.

Sagar Shah is my favourite commentator too. Infact, I started playing chess because of him. Only if you would have understood Hindi, you can see watch his funny side too lol. He is so much funny especially when he's with Samay Raina. 860 elo player here.

1. Daniel Naroditsky 2. Robert Hess 3. David Howell. The commentator dream team. A team so good, they almost never put them together in one commentary team.

I will say Levy Rozman's courses on chessly are worth the money. The studies, drills, and quizzes really help you remember and understand the positions well.

Currently 1100. Thanks for the video. Unsure where I should set my goal for this year.

This video is so down to earth and as someone who recently reached a 1000 rating, I can't be more thankful. But, I play only online since I have no one nor time to play OTB. Will my chess knowledge still be the same OTB as online?

OMG! i thought i was alone reviewing my wins and ignore my losses.. i thought i need a shrink to sort this weirdness 😂

I've been playing chess for 9-10 months and only have 1300 but I've been playing very rarely for the last few weeks, I've almost only been doing puzzles and I have 2800 elo for that. I want to get 3000 or 3100 and then only play rapid.

I am stuck at 1200 for so long... gotta study and make new strategies. Btw helpful video!

great ,i found out i actully also start2022 march and now 2300rapid and 2500 blitz

0:35 bro really sneaked in gothamchess and thought we wouldn't notice💀

Hi jack, wanted to ask you, do you have a coach? Or had in the past

Okay,let's make This a challenge I'm currently 1000 and stuck here since October I'll update u guys my rating climb or fall Next update on 4th september

14:30 - 14:35 That's genuinely scary though, ngl

As someone who cannot even get to 200 elo you are at the event horizon for me

Great Video!!!, but i still have a question, did you read any chess book?

Intro music?

I've been playing for about 1-1, 5 years and haven't played a single blitz game, got to 2200 rapid and decided that it is the time to start playing blitz, and I'm Fing shit, can you do the same video on blitz?

So, Being a 2000 in chess sounds about like being a 45 to 50 in halo Naturals can get this done in a couple years but like you said theres the end of the bell curve most people will never cross because they give up. The amount of things you have to know in halo without having to think about them (essentially not making blunders) is insane. One wrong step in the wrong direction at the wrong time gets punished with death. The instant kind.

1.5 years in from 200 to1700!

And here I am fricking depressed went from 1000 to 700 and still going downhill both in life and chess

Same bro. I also got to 2200 in 2 years. 💯💯 I got 2k in 1 year and then gained only 200 more in the whole second year

Learning from a good teacher is good. I gained 1925 in 7 months from learning from puzzles and Levy.

if the middlegame and endgame play is strong enough, opening theory isn't critical (unless we're in a sharp, tactical opening) for

Thanks biro

THANKS BUD

I crossed 2000 elo today 😁 Hope I get to cross 2200 in a year from now!

I am a 1550 but I quitter for a month and forgot lot about chess any tips to pick up chess again?

1780 was my best result. Can’t improve it anymore. Currently 1650-1750. Depends how much I drink. 2 months with no progress. Anyone above 1800 looks extremely strong for me.

Hey m from nepal its been like 1 year and 8 months of me playing chess i reached 1800 6months ago but m stuck at this level for long time my ailm is to reach 2k but i cant

Hello brother 👋🏻 i have a few questions can you answer me 1.My rating is 1200 elo should I play or learn Sicilian opening i usually play Italian opening 2.my thought process and openings are weak and my rating stuck in 1200 elo how can I improve sometimes i play closed position 😕 3. Knight vs bishop which is better and why? 4.what is your chess rating and who is your favourite chess player past and present 5. What is common mistakes in chess

Tania by far my favorite commentator, she makes the games so much more exciting.

13:23 - 13:35 Ahh so it's like resorting to steroids when you want a really good physique, even though you actually haven't put in everything in your power to achieve it. Nice analogy there, it really is just subconsciously giving up, but in the case of chess, the money literally is wasted since there wasn't any cheating done.

2000 to 2200 is 10% improvement, not 1% . Red thumb.

0:08 you started playing on 1st jan 2022 and were already near 2 thousand ELO within 4 months?!

Degen bullet is real

I hard grind 5 min blitz because I lay better in 5 min than 10 min because my opponents get too think too

I see you reply to a fair amount of comments which is super appreciated, so I thought I'd try asking you a question for personal research I'm doing. Have you noticed any noticeable positive impact on your overall cognitive abilities/"intelligence" from playing so much chess compared to before playing, and if yes in what way?

Hate both london & scotch.... Oh wait. It gets better, hate caro too Having said that, nice vid! You got a new sub :)

Is the cheater problem really that bad past the 10 minute rapid ? I mostly preferred 30 min games but now considering 10

So basically if i understand corect its opening,tacticts,end game just people who have high rating work harder than others with lower rating on these things?

And Tyler1 has gotten to 1900 in just a year.. incredible

Listened to every tip you said. Btw im about to start a small chanel.

Rematch farming is quite nice though

Like or Dislike: Like. But a major reason I stopped losing has been only playing after nights when I got eight hours of sleep. It also helps when I exercise and haven't been sitting at home all day like a bum. I also try not to play when I'm burdened with work and other external pressures.

Anna cramling and andrea botez Have Been playing chess their whole life but they are 2100 just look at some one who is 100 points higher rated than them and he achieved that in two years that's the difference between horses and donkeys 😂

I'm 1300 rating with 2700 puzzle rating and exclusively play 30 minute rapid games. I only do one game a day, because it's easier to rack up wins and streaks that way. I almost always play against lower rated opponents and with white because, statistically, the typical player wins more with white than with black. I sometimes play close to my rating or higher when I get white. I haven't bothered to learn any openings, but I have picked up a few classic books to read. In reality, I've only finished one Chess book, that's Bobby Fischer's "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (1982)" when I was just beginning to play the game. I think the thing that has helped me learn the most is watching GMs play in tournaments and doing puzzles. I hardly have to learn any theory when I calculate very well 😅

This is RAPID. There's something weird in that above the 1,600 level, players get worse on rapid. I think it's a combination of how the site allows people to start at 1,600 and how few players there are playing rapid. In other words, gains from 1,600-2,000 on rapid don't count for anything. Blitz is significantly more accurate because of the number of players playing it. For reference, I'm 1,500 FIDE, 1,600 blitz, and 2,100 rapid. Rapid is broken...

I got 2000 in a year stopped for 2 just came back and I’m around 1850 rn